Join us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco! We will toast Berlin-based translator Isabel Fargo Cole, winner of this year’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant, and the recent publication of The Tidings of the Trees. Cole will discuss the translator as discoverer, the challenges of recreating the experience of language, and the artistic intimacy one cultivates by translating multiple works by the same writer with editor and critic Joseph Schreiber.

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Clyde Always, the self-proclaimed "Bard of the Lower Haight" who delights audiences with his humorous, lowbrow insights and singsong poems and tales, often accompanied by his ukulele, gets a full-on solo show at The Marsh, complete with visual projections of his own creation. Joining him as an opening act is the folk duo More Hazards […]

Author of "Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man," which was named a best book of 2014 by NPR and BuzzFeed, among others, Brooklyn-based Thomas Page McBee celebrates the San Francisco launch of "Amateur: The True Story About What Makes a Man," which follows his efforts, as a trans man, […]

The author of the acclaimed story collections "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us" and "The Isle of Youth," both shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the novel "Find Me," presents her second novel, "The Third Hotel," which is set in Cuba and follows a widow […]

Oakland native James Cagney has been stunning crowds around the Bay Area for years with his original poems and strong voice, which needs less than two minutes to make a believer out of the casual poetry listener. Cagney celebrates the publication of his much-anticipated debut full-length collection "Black Steel Magnolias" (Nomadic Press) with a reading, […]

Green Apple hosts Ada Limón for her new poetry collection "The Carrying," which NPR has called "her best yet, a much needed shot of, if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." Limón is author of four previous collections, including "Bright Dead Things: Poems," a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics […]

Editor of "Golden State 2017: New Writing from California" Lisa Locascio visits San Francisco to read from her debut novel, "Open Me." An American, Roxana, decides to study abroad after graduating high school and ends up in Copenhagen, where she falls in love with her guide. As their relationship deepens, his mood darkens and Roxana […]

Author of the acclaimed story collection "Deceit and Other Possibilities," Vanessa Hua launches her debut novel, "A River of Stars," which follows a Chinese woman as she sets off for California to give birth to her married boss's son. Fleeing with her is her housemate, an unmarried mother kept apart from her American boyfriend. Hua […]

Beloved local activist Virgie Tovar, who started Babecamp and the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and is one of the nation's leading voices on fat discrimination and body image, launches her new book, "You Have the Right to Remain Fat," with a reading and conversation. Tovar is the managing director of Radar Productions and editor of "Hot […]